jacksilver

I'm pretty sure the idea is two fold. First, being a politician wasn't supposed to be a full time job. The second is that politicians need to spend time in their home state to hear from constituents and be a part of their state (travel which used to take days/weeks for travel).

It's not uncommon for there to be revisions, and they can be quite large. I think the concerning thing is that they're both large and negative revisions, although I'd say somewhat expected.

Overall though, I think these numbers are being reported truthfully as Trump has (maybe wants to) fire the head of the BLS - source

My suspicion is no one is able to accurately predict anything in the economy though due to Trump and Republicans going crazy with tariffs and killing the federal government.

This one is a big deal. This report is just the tip of the iceberg as we have only just begun to feel the pain of the federal layoffs (and don't get me started on tarrifs). If he removes people from accurately reporting, we're going to have a crashing economy with no metrics on what's really going on.

That's not really the problem here though. The problem is that Trump and Republican policy is literally breaking the economy. Tarrifs cause inflation to go up while loosing jobs, while the feds policies can generally only address one at a time (lower interest rates -> jobs and inflation go up / increase interest rates -> jobs and inflation go down).

Ultimately Trump has screwed over the economy so bad, that in half a year he's created an economic environment that the Fed can't fix unless Trump walks back his trade war.

Edit: This is why the Fed is in a wait and see period, they expect things to get worse and don't want to play their only card (rates decreases) too early. Trump continues to chip away at the economy and the Fed is about the only thing keeping us afloat.

Also, no more jobs!!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/01/jobs-report-july-2025-data/85467514007/

Thanks for the info.

I don't disagree with you on the first point. I put "unlawful" in quotes to imply that lawful/unlawful is ambiguous and gives Mastercard the cover they need to not really be lying in their statement, even if effectively they are.

Its corporate doublespeak to a T.

What they're saying is: "we haven't called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can't prove a game is "lawful" well cut them off".

This effectively has a chilling effect because it means anything that could be illegal becomes toxic and risky for steam.

Its a way for Mastercard to dictate what can be sold without actually dictating what can be sold. Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.

Wow! I appreciate your thoroughness.

After hearing you found it in a setting I went looking around again, and while I couldn't find any official Kubuntu documentation, it does seem like Flathub has a setup guide that mentions it as a setting config.

Also, I generally lean towards Ubuntu as most support I find online leans Debian, but curious what distro you use.

Pretty sure it's AI as the faves also look off. I had to look up the original photos, but Patrick Stewart looks noticeably different and William Shatners is too high Def.

My example was just to highlight that the "average user" may not be as technically capable as many in this thread propose. But that's also why I called out I may be underestimating the average user.

To add, I believe that town clocks probably also played a continuation of the church bells used to communicate the time to the village/town.

One of the main reasons Church bells and clock bells were so loud was to communicate to the area the current time.